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STARR INTERN. CO. v. AMERICAN INTERN. GROUP, INC.

No. 05 Civ. 6283(JSR).

648 F.Supp.2d 546 (2009)

STARR INTERNATIONAL CO., INC., Plaintiff and Counterclaim-Defendant, v. AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC., Defendant and Counterclaim-Plaintiff.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

August 31, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Abraham Zimmerman, Lauren Emily Aguiar, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (N.Y.C), Nicholas A. Gravante, Jr., Christopher Emmanuel Duffy, Dawn Louise Smalls, Steven Ian Froot, Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP(N.Y.C), New York, NY, Steven J. Kolleeny, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (DC), Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Martin Flumenbaum, Eric Alan Stone, Robert A. Atkins, Roberta Ann Kaplan, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (N.Y.), New York, NY, for Defendant.

David A. Schulz, Nicole Armenta Auerbach, Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz, LLP(N.Y.C.), New York, NY, for Movant.

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND FINAL JUDGMENT

JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

"Put it in writing" is the law's way of saying "get serious." In many circumstances, oral commitments are just too slippery to be enforced, a fact of human nature that the English Parliament recognized as early as 1677 when, declaring that certain contracts were unenforceable if not reduced to writing, it enacted what was tellingly called "An Act for the Prevention...

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